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  As a Witness Teenager - Did you Sneak Around ? Comical / Serious tales !

  by flipper in

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  as you all know i was raised in a very prominent witness family in california .

  dad was , and still is an elder since 1953 !

  in my youth in the 1970's i did my share of sneaking around / yes, although being an elders son!

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  dogisgod

  Nope. but I will regret it to my dying day. Jeez, the worst you would get was the clap. What a waste of hormonal developement.
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  JW Secret Police

  by outofthebox in

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  i heard about a special group inside the organization.

  its sole purpose is to find and judicialy process disidents (or apostates as they called them).

  have you heard of such secret police before?

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  dogisgod

  Haven't been there for a while but the "secret police' is EVERYBODY. If you see something you must report it to the elders. (Even if it may be truely nothing bad...something bad MIGHT devlope 10 yrs down the road and better to discipline now ).
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  Born in or Converted to JW? What are the stats here? and why....

  by oompa in

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  can't everyone just put this one item on their profile before posting.

  it seems like most posters have no profile, but this info could help in several ways.

  i am just guessing, but it seems like more here were born in.....your thoughts on this?......oompa.

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  Born in. Mother studied when I was 8 mos old. Became very zealous. No more xmas, bdays, holidays. Very shocking to my father and older brothers. My dad tried to do the holidays but without her help or encouragement he gave up and would just give us kids money. We lost contact with our close family (all catholic) relationships. To this day when effort is made to contact them they don't respond. My dad had been a very athletic guy with bowling and baseball but soon she hounded him to give that up. I had to go to every meeting with her but "the boys" didn't always go. Mother is SHOCKED whenever she brings it up and they say they HATED the meetings. (Especially the one in prison). Dad eventually studied and even went in service but it really wasn't his comfort zone. (My mom describes it as a 'fear of man" although he was a lightweight boxer and capible of kicking ass) His big break was when I was raped by an apt mgr and the brothers came to hound me about it. I was crying. They were verbally pounding me. then my dad (about 73 yrs old) told them it was enough and they had to leave. The Overseer said, Mr. xxxxxx do you think a little old man like you could kick us two big young men out of this house? My father said let's just give it a try and if this is the kind of people you are I don't want to be associated with you. In return the CO said , 'if this is the kind of man you are we don't want you at our meetings!!!!"

  They stormed out of the house and my father never went to another meeting of which I felt tremendous guilt that I was responsible for my father's upcoming death at Armegeddon.

  I was baptized at an assembly I went to with a married couple who were pioneers. The night before baptism they asked me. "Who is going to survive Armegeddon and God's wrath" Answer, "the Great crowd.' "And how is one identified as being part of the great crowd?" 'By being baptized'. "If you are not baptized at the time of judgement then you are the same as those that reject god and therefore deserve to be destroyed". That scared me enough to get baptized without telling my mother and she was really pissed that she didn't even see it. I was 16 and knew that whatever much I did was not enough and "perhaps' getting dunked under the water MIGHT assure avoidence of a fiery end where my eyes would not melt out of their sockets and skin melt off my bones.
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  Being a Jehovah's Witness Can Make You Fat

  by WTWizard in

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  as there has been some talk lately of a crackdown on obesity (in the form of the great boasting session), it might be time for a thread about how being one of jehovah's witlesses can lend one to becoming fat.. first, my personal situation.

  when i was in college, i gained the 4x15 pounds that were supposed to be gained in college, and it was only my sophomore semester.

  it was legitimately my fault.

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  At my old hall there are more heavies than not. But then Americans are getting bigger and bigger all the time. In Seattle where the weather is not always condusive to outdoor activites it encourages people to do all that driving around doing "return visits". Fitness and exercise are not emphasized because it takes time away from xtian duties. If you join a gym you might meet someone and fornicate. Pretty sad.
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  Pentecostals? Should I be afraid of them?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  just finished watching the film 'borat'.

  in it there is a scene where he attends what i assume is a pentecostal church meeting.

  for all i know it is a setup.

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  I avoid anything that puts my brain on the back burner and makes me look more foolish than usual. Gin and Tonic is about as far as I go. I think they are scary and freaky. Self induced trances and thrashing about while speaking ancient sanskrit or whatever doesn't seem to honor God or accomplish anything.
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  Toastmasters... again?

  by Bryan in

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  i know, not the most exciting topic, but.... as most of you know i have been speaking at many of my book signings and am working to increase my speaking career.. the toastmasters international competition has been going on for a month or two.. i have won the club, area and division contests and i go on to the district competition in spokane, washington on the 19th.

  this is really a great joy for me and the higher i get in the competitions the more recognition i get from speaker bureaus (agents for speakers).. help me with some positive thoughts as i compete in the next two competitions.

  if i can get through those, i'll get to the big one!

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  I did Toastmasters for about a year here in Seattle but my work schedule became so erratic that I couldn't go to the meetings. They are really an impressive group. Good luck on your journey!!!
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  Was Jesus really without sin?

  by Terry in

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  he violated the sabbath law and he saved a condemned woman from being stoned in compliance with the law.. does it matter he had scruples and self-justifying theological arguments?.

  would those arguments have saved anybody else from being put to death?.

  technically speaking (the letter of the law) could we truly speak of jesus as really without sin?.

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  How could you know unless you really knew everything about his life...which we really know very little.

  If he was "perfect" = to that loser Adam then was he above the definition of 'sin' of the Mosaic Law?

  The "Law" was built to show 'imperfect' people just how 'imperfect' they were and were in need of a 'savior' so if you are the 'perfect savior' you are not under the law. He pre-existed the 'law'. Grandfather rights.
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  Why did Death not stop as soon as the RANSOM was paid?

  by jwfacts in

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  terry's recent thread about god's love made me start wondering the above question.

  normally a ransom is done as a swap, the payment is made on exchange.

  2000 years ago jesus made payment by dieing.

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  dogisgod

  Wonderful question.
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  It was awful

  by Mrs Smith in

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  as i posted in a previous thread, i went to a friends funeral on friday( i'll call him peter).

  it was my first time back to a kh in years.

  as i walked in i overheard a "sister" telling her friend that she had to come straight from work and that's why she was wearing pants and that she hoped no one would think that she was "wordly".

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  dogisgod

  I don't know really what to do. When my father died he had never been baptized and was DONE with them after they treated my like I was the great harlot after having been raped by my apt. manager. My mother had nothing for him. No funeral, no good byes for his friends just nothing. Now she is running out of energy and time and I don't feel a motivation to encourage a JW memorial commercial. Even though she has been in the same cong for 50 yrs no one really knows who she really is. She is just thought of as "serving faithfully for 56 years" (not really the truth). Maybe the cong would just do one for her but I don't know that I would go except to tell them who the real woman is and that she didn't swallow all their output like they thought she did. They know she is a "man-hater" thanks to her mother and the patriarchial system the JWs endorse. She's just so darned cute at 89, petite, white hair, spunky. All that covers a mean streak a mile wide.

  I guess it is just choosing your battles and I don't want to fight them or her. It just kills me. Why go and put yourself in the line of fire? This person is gone and whatever there is after is what they get to know ahead of us. Why go to some dry, devoid of the joy of life event when it has nothing to do with the person you knew? Better to gather some friends and drink to the best parts of their lives.

  If there are just two things the Borg totally lacks is joy and love of life. I believe they are totally disrespectful of the limited time we live on this planet and the importance we play on each others life.
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  The Occult

  by mahler in

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  in the hall i used to attend i found alot of people had 'demon' stories, did you know anyone like this or have any run-ins yourself?

  i personally think they were zealot delusions.

  nevermind i just did a search a found a whole bunch of stories.

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  I had one experience that was pretty woo woo. I was about 11 or 12 and was at a home of a "worldly" neighbor playing. Her little sister who was about 7 was in the front yard with a friend playing with a OuiJi board. We came out of the house and I said, "Ask it who Satan is". It spelled out, "a god". (This freaked me out) So I said ask it "if Satan caused Eve to sin and cast death upon all mankind" (This is really verbatum and true WT training talking) Before they spelled out that question it began to answer to me directly and said "God made Satan (big pause) Cast death upon Eve". Then it said "dog is god (aka my real name that those little girls could not have spelled) you are a very intelligent girl. You were borned by a witness" And at just that time my mom drove up to this house in her 57 blue and white chevy. ( all of us girls were freaked out and scared and crying) and said I just had a really strong feeling that I had to come and get you. I thought at that time that if Satan knew who I was then God MUST know who I am and God sent my mom to save us.

  My mom had an incident before I was born. They lived in So CA and she had just bathed my two older brothers and put them to bed. My dad was working swing shift. The evening was warm and the windows were open for the cooler night air. After she was cleaning the bathroom and carrying the dirty towels to the laundry room a voice said to her, as if it were someone clearly speaking to her, "There is a man in the bedroom". She leaned into the doorway and sure enough there was some big guy with his back to the wall waiting for her to walk by and then get her from behind. Her maternal instinct kicked in because she thought he was after her kids and she planted herself in the doorway and started screaming, "HELP, MURDER, POLICE!!!!! Over and over. He responded by swinging a right hook into her face and then jumping out the window and running away. She had a huge black eye and for many nights after that would sit on a chair in the corner of the living room with a big knife from the kitchen waiting for my dad to come home from work. She thinks it was an angel.